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Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that porting Ps3 games to the NGP is a "simple and quick” process.

“We were very focused on this area from the start,” he said in a recent interview with Edge Magazine . “This is, again, a lesson learnt from the PS3. We had to make the development environment for NGP as ‘easy’ as possible.”

“Based on this expertise – and also the working habits they developed working on the PS3 – we had to make development on the NGP as natural as possible – an extension of the PS3, if you will. So the three demos you’ve seen – Lost Planet 2, Ryu Ga Gotoku [Yakuza] and [Metal Gear Solid 4] – they prove porting is simple and quick, but it doesn’t mean that’s all you can expect. My view of NGP isn’t just as a platform for porting PS3 titles.”
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From my PoV, I don't see this as merely for having the same games on both devices, but for allowing companies to change their focus of development should a game work better for the other device than what they are currently developing it for.

From my PoV, I don't see this as merely for having the same games on both devices, but for allowing companies to change their focus of development should a game work better for the other device than what they are currently developing it for.

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Well more then likely allot of companies will be adapting their games for this with the PS3 fiasco going on.

Well, maybe if we are lucky some companies will allow us to use some activation code with the Playstation 3 game purchase to download or send a port version to the NGP. It will probably have some restrictions but it would be nice to switch from console to portable like that and have saves and trophies that can be carried over.

So where you can pay extra with certain Blurays to get a digital version of the movie with it, we can expect a PS3/NGP "Bundle Edition" of almost every PS3 exclusive? Now that's something I'm not interested in at all...

Well some companies might give it for free while others may charge for it or avoid it entirely. To me it is like EA and some other companies removing content they already made to add DLC to a game in the hopes of receiving more money or Capcom adding DRM to some of their games that Sony doesn't force you to add. Not all companies will screw you every chance they get but most of them will.

Cool if your on the go, but wouldn't you rather play console games on a console? Very cool nonetheless.

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No. Some of us don't care for being tethered to a television in order to play a game. I enjoy being able to take my games with me, or being able to play in any room of the house without a hassle.

Anyways, anything Sony can do to foster development on the next handheld is a positive step. The PSP failure was not enough in the hands of gamers, coupled with expensive production costs meeting with smaller return compared to other systems. If the cost is low to take an already prepared PS3 game and add PSP to the lineup, then more companies may do that just to expand the market.

Hopefully it will also minimalize the number of bad port abominations like Marvel UA 2 and Ghostbusters.

People aren't getting it. The NGP can run the same code as PS3 games, but graphics will probably still need to be lowered. PS3 games won't just automagically work on the NGP with a quick copy-paste or convert to eboot.

People aren't getting it. The NGP can run the same code as PS3 games, but graphics will probably still need to be lowered. PS3 games won't just automagically work on the NGP with a quick copy-paste or convert to eboot.

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That would imply the NGP having a Cell processor, which I doubt. Considering all the demos shown are "ports", it doesn't mean it'll run actual PS3 code. The code itself was most likely re-compiled to the NGP format.

People aren't getting it. The NGP can run the same code as PS3 games, but graphics will probably still need to be lowered. PS3 games won't just automagically work on the NGP with a quick copy-paste or convert to eboot.

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That would imply the NGP having a Cell processor, which I doubt. Considering all the demos shown are "ports", it doesn't mean it'll run actual PS3 code. The code itself was most likely re-compiled to the NGP format.

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Is that not what I said? I think you're getting your terms confused, or taking me for a simpleton. The executable itself isn't the "code" to which I was referring. I was referring to the source code of the game itself.